Hicks: Freddie Mercury snuck Princess Diana into a gay bar?

According to a new book, the late Freddie Mercury snuck a disguised Princess Diana into a notorious gay bar in the late 1980s.

In "The Power of Positive Drinking," comedian Cleo Rocos wrote that she, TV star Kenny Everett and the Queen singer disguised Princess Diana as a male model so that she could sneak into the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in south London. Dressed in an army jacket, black cap and sunglasses, no one apparently realized it was her.

"When we walked in ... we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any minute. But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it," Rocos says. She said the place was packed, but she, Mercury and Everett helped divert attention from Diana so that she could order drinks at the bar. The group left after about 20 minutes.

"She did look like a beautiful young man," Rocos said. "She was always a very fit girl, so they might have thought, 'There's a nice young man with pert buttocks.'"